Leather Jacket

A New York teen-ager was shot and killed by gunmen who wanted his leather jacket. Police said Quran Horton, 16, was shot once in the chest Thursday for his ''Eight-ball'' jacket, a popular leather coat with a white collar and the number eight in a ball emblazoned on the back.

A 49-year-old Orlando man was stabbed in the chest last night while waiting at a bus stop in Parramore, according to police. The would-be thief had snatched the wallet out of Kevin Mickens' hand at a bus stop near Parramore Avenue and West Robinson Street, according to a police report. After Mickens snatched it back, the man stabbed him then rode away on a bicycle, the report said. Mickens was found on the ground, bleeding about 11 p.m. and was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

An anonymous bidder paid $43,500 for a leather jacket worn by John Lennon, a record price for an item of celebrity clothing, Christie's auction house said.The London sale of hundreds of items of rock and pop memorabilia Thursday raised a total of $336,000.Lennon wore the jacket both onstage and off in the early 1960s, when the Beatles were playing clubs in their northern England hometown of Liverpool and in Hamburg, Germany. The jacket had been expected to fetch $7,000 to $11,000.One of Jimi Hendrix's trademark floppy black felt hats, dating from around 1963, was bought by Hard Rock International for $9,000.

In 1974, Henry Winkler snagged a bit part as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli in the TV show "Happy Days. " Really, that's the way it started. Producer Garry Marshall envisioned Fonzie as a bumbling foil to Ron Howard 's Richie Cunningham . But instead, Winkler brought the cool. He swaggered into the role "as everybody I wasn't – but everybody I wanted to be," Winkler says. You know what happened next. "Nerd" and "sit on it" moved into our nation's vocabulary. The Fonz has been recognized as No. 4 on TV Guide's list of top 50 characters, has been the focus of a new religion on "Family Guy" and still graces Hallmark birthday cards with his image.

WOULD YOU drink 600 2-liter bottles of Pepsi for a leather jacket? Plenty of people did, or at least bought the bottles. So many, in fact, that PepsiCo Inc. announced Thursday it is cutting back on the advertising campaign for its Pepsi Stuff promotion, which runs through October. Pepsi said the giveaway has cut into profit because it must pay half the costs for all the prizes.

FAKE BOMB USED. A man armed with a pistol and a harmless device made to look like a bomb robbed a Casselberry bank of an undisclosed amount of money Monday. He escaped in a teller's car. Casselberry police said the man walked into a Southeast Bank branch on State Road 436 just before noon and put his fake bomb on a teller's desk. He demanded money and the woman's car keys. Seminole County sheriff's Lt. Martin LaBrusciano said the ''bomb'' was a silver box equipped with an antenna, a battery, a red light and modeling clay.

Rap star Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert Van Winkle, said he was asleep in another room when thieves broke into his Miami Beach mansion and made off with more than $100,000 worth of clothes, jewelry and other items. The rapper, 24, said burglars entered through the back door of the second-floor master bedroom and ransacked the room Saturday night, taking two water bikes worth $10,000 each, a $20,000 Rolex watch, a $7,500 leather jacket, $1,200 white ski jacket, a $10,000 diamond ring, $4,300 diamond pinkie ring and $15,000 diamond-studded bracelet, according to police reports.

Brenda Smith had never been able to surprise her boyfriend Tony Saucier - until now. She caught him completely off-guard Friday when a motorcycle ride turned into his wedding. Saucier had wanted to marry Smith for almost three years. She kept turning him down because he wanted to elope. She wanted a ceremony. She got it. About 30 leather-clad bikers were on hand for the nuptials at the Gulf Coast Harley-Davidson motorcycle shop. Even the pastor wore a leather jacket as she conducted the ceremony.

A 49-year-old Orlando man was stabbed in the chest last night while waiting at a bus stop in Parramore, according to police. The would-be thief had snatched the wallet out of Kevin Mickens' hand at a bus stop near Parramore Avenue and West Robinson Street, according to a police report. After Mickens snatched it back, the man stabbed him then rode away on a bicycle, the report said. Mickens was found on the ground, bleeding about 11 p.m. and was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Question: I'm having an argument with my girlfriend as to whether men's leather jackets are out of style. She says they are. I say, "You're nuts." Every guy I know wears a leather jacket for casual times. What do you think? Answer: I think telling your girlfriend, "You're nuts," is no way to win her over. Rudeness is never in style. Instead, try the diplomatic approach: "You're right. Leather jackets aren't the latest fashion. But they are a classic. And classics never go out of style."

Who needs heavy jewelry when the weather is oppressive? For a light touch of adornment, try clear crystals and delicate gold chains. Necklaces ($16-$37) from The Primrose Shop, 3118 Corrine Drive, Orlando. Brighten the gloom of an afternoon thunderstorm with an umbrella patterned with pinwheels, oranges or windswept grasses ($55-$65) from Tray 6. Available at specialty boutiques or online at tray6.com. A leather jacket in August? The latest styles by Spiros, the Winter Park designer who uses just his first name, feature leather appliques on stretch netting, which allows for the free flow of cooling air currents.

LEESBURG -- Ike and Dee McCollum love their Harleys, so they opened a store for folks who love them, too. The couple opened Love 2 Ride, a Bikers Consignment Specialty Shop, in December at 411 W. Main St. They are bracing for Leesburg's Bike Fest on April 28-30, when bikers from all over the country will arrive. "Leesburg is such a phenomenal biker-friendly community. We are trying to get things geared up for Bike Fest," Dee McCollum said. "We have to be very efficient at that time." The store has accessories such as leather clothing, motorcycle equipment and Harley-Davidson collectible lines: stuffed animals, biker Barbie dolls, jewelry, patches and pins.

Question: For her birthday, my teenage daughter has her eye on a makeup set that comes in its own fancy makeup chest. It does have lots of different shades of lipstick, eye shadow, blush, etc., in it. Are these sets a good deal? Answer: Usually not, and here's why: Those kits give you more colors than you are likely to use. Plus, you're also paying for the packaging. If, for example, there are three shades of blush in the kit, the chances are slim that all three will suit your daughter's coloring.

You can call Orlando's new Hard Rock Vault a museum, if a wall-sized quilt made of women's underwear depicting Frank Zappa as a playing card is your idea of art. That might be a stretch, but the brightly colored tapestry is undeniably cool, a focal point of the new attraction with a rock 'n' roll attitude that opens Monday at Mercado on International Drive. The 17,000-square-foot interactive exhibit, in the building that once housed the Guinness World Record Experience, showcases a portion of Hard Rock Cafe's 65,000 rock artifacts that rotate among Hard Rock's restaurants, hotels and casinos worldwide.

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Who needs heavy jewelry when the weather is oppressive? For a light touch of adornment, try clear crystals and delicate gold chains. Necklaces ($16-$37) from The Primrose Shop, 3118 Corrine Drive, Orlando. Brighten the gloom of an afternoon thunderstorm with an umbrella patterned with pinwheels, oranges or windswept grasses ($55-$65) from Tray 6. Available at specialty boutiques or online at tray6.com. A leather jacket in August? The latest styles by Spiros, the Winter Park designer who uses just his first name, feature leather appliques on stretch netting, which allows for the free flow of cooling air currents.

Andre Wadsworth, Florida State's All-America defensive end, received a Christmas present from a former high school teacher when he went home to Miami for the holidays.Wadsworth wrote an essay for that teacher's class five years ago in which he was asked to predict his place in the world in five years.''It was like a three-page letter. I saw my handwriting and said, ''What's this?' '' Wadsworth said. ''It was (written) right before my last football game (in high school), and I wrote, This will be the last time I'll suit up for any sports ever again.

ST. CLOUD - In what U.S. postal officials are saying is the first large-scale Internet scam to originate on eBay.com from Florida, more than 500 e-commerce buyers paid $29.99 for leather jackets from a St. Cloud seller who cashed the checks and then vanished. The scam began on the Internet the week before Christmas as part of a Dutch auction on eBay.com. the week before Christmas. The Dutch auction format is designed for sellers with many identical items to sell. Winners, in this case, ordered men's or women's black leather bomber jackets for $29.99 each.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Leather jackets are now the latest item prohibited by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban religious army. Taliban soldiers used knives Wednesday to slash the leather jackets that young men were wearing in Kabul, saying the jackets were prohibited under Islam, witnesses said. Since taking power in Kabul in 1996, the Taliban have imposed harsh Islamic laws, including a ban on music, cameras and videocassette recorders.